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James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock


Link to: https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/

On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. But it was my job to take his prototypes built in Macromind Director and turn them into working code, as part of the Finder team. I moved over from Scotland to Ireland in late 1996 with my future wife, with both of us joining the small software team there.

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